MORE ON MALINOVSKY'S DEPARTURE

The misunderstandings between the editor and the staff, from them there is also an az, force me to take up my pen. Another angry-preserious letter, in which even instead of "comradely" scolding attempts to speak barbs and officialism. You shouldn't, really, you shouldn't. It is impossible to get hot - you cannot do without it, but so that I could seriously think of "kramolya", this the editor himself does not think. C'est trop. II ne faut rien outrer. On peut devenir ridicule1*. Seriously, on the whole, the conduct of the paper is straightforwardly excellent. Reading today the feuilleton "The Case of M[alinov]sky with M[artov] and D[an]", I was directly delighted. And the selection of resolutions! Positive work is flourishing - I say without a shadow of irony - and I quite and certainly leave it to the editor not only to reduce swear words (where, when have I ever taken offense at such a case?), but also to move and delete articles if the abundance (e.g., about "Unity "2) is excessive.

All in all, it is now that the sang-froid has come to fruition. Le talent journaliste du redacteur s'est developpe plus et plus. L'ennemi est ecrase2*.

We had insignificantly minor disagreements, and I willingly take 99/100 of the blame and irritation (if it was due to nervous letters) on myself. In general, work is now a pleasure, all the more so with each new immediate "answer" and to positive [and] work and enemies.

I would very much like to have two words in the mailbox or in a letter, ...que les divergences et les malentendus sont entrement et definitivement dissipes et que vous ne fachez plus3*. Right, it would be very bitter if you were to discover the property of nourishing rancune4* for so long.

Quant to la circonstances qu'en fevrier vous n'aviez pas su etc., je vous pris de bien vouloir considerer la situation extremement delicate ou nous nous nous sommes trouves5*. Red[acto]r is entitled to claim that il n'etait pas bien informt6*. But we, too, for a long time at the moment of crisis, had to be painfully silent and bide our time. Un petit peu de patience encore et tout sera eclaire7*.

Finishing this next article (I will not be able to take up these articles for a while yet), I ask you once again to accuse me of absence totale de rancune8*.

V.I.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 23834 - autograph.

1* This is too much. Do not exaggerate anything. One can become ridiculous.

2* The editor's journalistic talent is developing more and more. The enemy is crushed.

3* That the disagreements and misunderstandings are completely and finally dispelled and that you are no longer angry.

4* Dislike.

5* As to the circumstance that in February you did not know, etc., I beg you very much to consider the extremely delicate position in which we were in.

6* He was not sufficiently informed.

7* A little more patience and everything will clear up.

8* Confirm the absence of any animosity.

1Dated from Rabochy newspaper No. 6, May 29 (June 11), 1914, which published the feuilleton "The Case of Malinovsky with Martov and Dan."

It refers to the disagreements of the newspaper editor L.B.Kamenev with the editorial staff, as well as with V.I.Lenin, apparently in connection with the publication of materials about R.V.Malinovsky.

2 "Unity" - a legal newspaper of the Menshevik-Party group headed by G.V.Plekhanov and the Bolsheviks-Priyrenevtsy. It was published in St. Petersburg from May to June 1914. Four issues were published.